It’s Not the World That Hurts You: Lama Dawa's Commentary

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"The appearances of the world are not the problem. It's clinging to them that causes our suffering."
-A quote attributed to Tilopa

Lama Dawa Zangpo’s Commentary:
Tilopa was a great Indian Yogi, a Buddhist master from the 11th century, and in this very famous and important quote, he tells us that the appearances of the world are not the problem. Now, ordinarily, we do often blame things in the external world, things that are separate from us, and say that's my problem, that caused my problem, and we blame things. That's very normal, but Tilopa is turning things around here and he's pointing out that, those things are neutral. It's they're not the problem. It's our relationship to them, that's the problem. It's the fact that we either desire them or we want to get rid of them, depending on if we like it or we don't like it. That's the problem. The problem is us. It's our clinging, it's our expectations, and we need to see this clearly. When we see things clearly, we can drop our expectations and our attachments and just relate to things in a very clean kind of way. This will eliminate much of our suffering, much of our problems.

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